 FROM BILL'S DESKby Bill Gatten - NARS
THE LAW OF
SYNCHRONICITY
HOW TO LIVE WITHIN
IT…AND USE IT.
As
many of you know, I spend a lot of time at our workshops discussing
the subject of working within and controlling our lives’ own matrix
of desires, goals, needs and fortuitous opportunities. Well, I think
the topic deserves more consideration than it has gotten in the past
because the fact is that a clear understanding of what Synchronicity
is and how it enriches our lives. Even more importantly, the ability
to call upon it and control it at ill gives us power beyond
imagination.
First
of all, what is Synchronicity other than simply a term coined by Carl
Jung at the turn of the century? Jung used the term as descriptive
of those unexplainable series of coincides that seem to emanate from
the collective consciousness of humanity, fulminating in seemly
unlikely and impossible results?
As
we travel along the ever intersecting lines of energy that are our
individual lives, we regularly cross and re-cross the energies of
others, and most of the time such crossing of pathways involves
little more than a friendly hello or maybe a hug or handshake at
best. But more often than not, the crossing of these energy fields
occurs just before or just after the other person has come and gone,
leaving us (and them) unaware of being, or having been, directly
within the mutual influences of each other’s energy output. This
is to say that if you and I are within proximity of each other, we
are influencing each other’s electromagnetic make-up, much as a
passing car’s spinning generator might create static on your radio
or TV.
Aside
from personal electromagnetic interaction with others, we also
interact daily with opportunity as much as we do with other people.
In other words, all opportunities are available to us every morning
when we awaken. We can make what we wish of any day, given the tools
and freedom to do so…if we but knew what choices to make and which
ones to avoid. However, nevertheless, we only have to consideration
to contend with at any point in ant day or hour of our
lives…evolutionary action or devolutionary action.
In addition, if our constant choices are support for the continued
forward evolutionary advancement of humankind, (e.g., evolutionary
actions), then synchronicities flow into to our lives at every
intersection.
In
certain cases, these intersections occur for us as a series of
multiple coincidences: in other words, a chain of related
happenstances that collectively create bizarre and unexplainable
outcomes. A true synchronicity is incalculable, unexplainable and
seems truly “otherworldly.” According to Michael Talbot, the
author of The Holographic Universe, true Synchronicity, due to
its departure from the predictability of our natural world, is in
fact supernatural in nature, and only explainable as a
departure from, and a contravention of, the known physical world
(according to Albert Einstein: A “tear or rip in the energy grid
that is the fabric of our realty”).
Let’s
say, for example, you meet your old friend, Bob, at your hometown
airport just as you are departing for a distant city…well, that’s
a “chance meeting.” The odds of meeting someone you know under
those circumstances are actually pretty high, given that you both
live in the same town and use the same airport, and in consideration
of the number of people in your acquaintance base who fly on
airlines. Bob is simply one out of thousands who could have shown up
at the same time in the same place. No big deal…yet.
Now
let’s say that you and Bob discover that you are both on the same
flight. A bit more coincidental to be sure, but still coincidence.
Moreover, chances of such an occurrence are quite high, as there are
only a set number of flights leaving during that time, and if you
both were heading for the same place at the same time, you would
obviously have to be at the same place and on the same airplane.
These compound coincidences are not expected to happen very often,
but such occurrences are not all that unusual, or worth pondering for
very long. In this scenario, there is not enough mystique to raise
the hairs on anyone’s neck. After all, you might instead have
spotted each other after you boarded, or as you departed the plane
and just wrote it off as one of hundreds of the chance meetings we
all experience throughout our lives.
Let’s
now say that the airport in question is not in your hometown, but in
a distant large city, and once you and Bob locate your seat numbers,
you discover that you and Bob were randomly given seat assignments in
the same row, in adjacent seats. Well, although a still more
unlikely coincidence, not a big deal yet because there are only a
limited number of rows and each of you have to sit in one of them.
But since the odds against such a happening are quite higher now,
this series of events can be called an unusual collection of
“compound coincidences,” but still with measurable predictability
or a calculable “correlation coefficient.”
At
this point, you and Bob marvel that you were seated next to each
other, and say “Wow, Golly!” and all of that. But as you glance
up ahead you see that Mary, a young lady you both used to date, whom
neither of you have seen for years is checking row numbers and headed
toward the seat next to the two of you. OK, now the elements of a
synchronicity are beginning to build…but still, no cigar. The odds
against such multiple related coincidences are quite high, but still
measureable in terms of a “p value (i.e., the Pierson Correlation
Coefficient).”
After
more “Wows,” and marveling over the coincidence, Mary tells you
that when she arrives at her destination, which is also yours and
Bob’s destination, she’s to appear in a play on Broadway. At
this point Bob asks what Play? It then turns out that he’s the
playwright who wrote it. Then you announce that you’re a director
and your purpose for going there is to interview for the play’s
director’s position.
Now,
at this point, is that a synchronicity, or is it more a series of
strange coincidences? After all you all live in the same state and
you each are about the same age and went to the same school and would
likely fly the same airline at the same time if your were headed for
the same place and destined to arrive at the same time. The odds of
sitting next to each other are as good as getting four Aces in a
Poker game. The rest might be analogous to getting a Straight Spades
Flush. The straight flush is also predictable with real odds, and
anyone who plays poker a lot will probably hit at least one in a
lifetime or know someone who did…it’s when such an event occurs
simultaneously with another event of similar odds that Synchronicity
is approached.
A
true synchronicity is analogous to having two players at the same
table each hitting a Royal Flush during the same hand, and then
unexpectedly discovering when they reach for the pot that they have
matching birth marks, indicating that they are twins who were
separated at birth and who had been looking for each other all their
lives.
With
a true synchronicity, the odds against its happening are
incalculable, and there is always a culmination in a surprising
end-result, which would have been impossible had the string of
unexplainable, synchronous events not occurred in the order they did.
Here’s
the whole deal in a couple nutshells:
The
term “synchronicity” is not a real word. It’s a colloquial
corruption of the word ‘synchronous’ or ‘synchronism,’ but
which, in its current usage, implies a series of coincidences that
bring about a specific, seemingly impossible occurrence or end
result: that “rip in the fabric of time and space,” if you will.
By
virtue of its dependence upon a thread of synchronized coincidences,
a true “synchronicity” is distinctly different than a mere string
of coincidences, and more closely related (some say) to divine
intervention.
A
real example:
Dr
Wayne Dyer, the famous motivation lecturer, tells a story of having
once been scheduled to speak before a large organization in the San
Francisco Bay area of Northern California. Upon his arrival in the
city, before going to his hotel and verifying the time and date of
his highly paid engagement, he decided to stop at a randomly selected
bookstore (one of hundreds in the city) to pick up a book by a
particular author who had been recommended to him by a friend. Upon
checking with the counter clerk he was directed where to locate the
book. While thumbing through its pages, a woman came in the store
and asked where she could find a particular book by Dr. Wayne Dyer.
The clerk, who had no idea who Dr. Dyer or the woman was, directed
her to the shelf containing the book.
After
picking up the book and noticing Dr. Dyer’s photo on the back
cover, she happened to glance in his direction and was amazed to see
who was standing there. As he smiled and acknowledged that he was
indeed Wayne Dyer, he noticed that the picture on the back of the
book he’d been looking at was that of the woman to whom he was
talking. As they were leaving the store, they each discovered from
the other in their conversation that their respective speaking
engagements had been unknowingly switched to different dates and
times. As it turned out, had they not met, both would have shown up
in the wrong place at the wrong time and neither of them could have
known about the switch.
Just
imagine how many circumstantial events were involved in that meeting,
and how all of them fed into the unlikely end-result. Why should the
same two people be in the same city at the same time when neither of
them lived there, and when both of them had chosen the wrong day to
arrive? Why would they be visiting the same bookstore? Why would
they have picked the exact same year, month, date and moment in time
to enter the store? Why would the author of a book that one of them
was looking for just happen to be standing in the same spot within
the same building looking for a book authored by the other? Why
would such serendipitous happenstance occur simultaneously to two
people at the same moment in time? And…why would the very two
people involved be the same authors who had written the respective
books that were being separately sought by each of them? That is the
essence of the term “Synchronicity.”
Given a story like
this, one must ask: “Was it meant to be?” Was this accidental
meeting arranged by some intelligence beyond our normal senses? Are
these things common enough to warrant study and deep consideration?
Is there an unseen force at work here? Angels? Spirit guides. A
major wrinkle in our predestination? What?
Well, I say
“maybe,” relative to the choices above, but a definite “yes”
to the prospect of a super natural power being in control of these
events. And so do the likes of some pretty great mind in our word,
such as: Albert Einstein, Max Plank, Neils Bohr, Arthur Schrödinger,
Stephen Hawking, and a host of history’s most noted and respected
scientists and explorers of the mysterious netherworld of Quantum
Physics and the nature of reality.
The
power behind these occurrences is us…you and me. We are the
supernatural power that brings these occurrences about, and we do,
for more than we think, manifest full control over the many “natural
occurrences” that are the plays we’ve written for our lives.
Modern
science has determined and verified that the human mind is indeed
capable of affecting elements of nature that were previously thought
to be wholly outside ourselves. For instance, extensive research in
Quantum Physics (the science of dinky stuff) reveals that the
elements of an atom actually change in form when they are being
observed versus when they are not being observed. An atom’s
electrons, previously thought to be particles encircling the atom’s
nucleus, is in fact only a particle when we are observing it. When
we cease to observe it, it becomes an energy wave.
For
an apt analogy for this phenomenon, picture a bowling ball rolling
down the alley as a round ball that disappears and becomes a V shaped
pattern of energy when the observer looks away from it. After all
the ball itself is only a bundle of molecules, atoms, sub atomic and
quantum particles held together by varying strengths of
electromagnetism. In knocking over the pins, the ball is not
necessary…it's only the force field comprising the ball being
unable to meld easily with the force field comprising the pins that
is needed to fell the pins.
Of
immediate concern, however, is the issue of how can you and I can
alter elements of our own physical world by just thinking about
it? Personally, I’m quite sure that we all do exactly that on
a regular basis day after day, and year after year. It has been
conclusively shown that positivity in prayer, need establishment and
even primitive incantations can ameliorate disease (…conclusively
enough for me anyway): not only diseases within our own bodies; but
in the minds and bodies of others. Some call it the power of prayer,
others call it the power of affirmation or psychic
treatment…others may think of it as Voo Doo or witchcraft: and
despite those terms, all of it can be used for Evil as well as for
Good.
The
facilitating force, regardless of its label or intent, remains at our
disposal for our own use in improving, enriching and prolonging our
own lives. For me, it all boils down to one thing: Each of us is a
manifestation of the intelligence of (that is) the Universe.
Collectively we are, I strongly believe, its (the Universe’s) way
of experiencing itself. At a single indefinable point in time, our
cosmos exploded into its embryonic being, and then on another day
created the dichotomies that facilitate the formation of matter. We
are, I believe, the end-result (so far anyway) of intellectual
evolution, and the very vehicle by which the “created creator”
experiences itself. We are the means by which we humans can marvel
at all of what we, by virtue of being hard-wired into the universal
plan and through universal intelligence, have accomplished.
Getting
too heavy? OK, then how about another case…one that is a bit more
personal?
Many
years ago while playing drums in a nightclub in San Luis Obispo, Ca.
I had my a car stolen right from under my nose…literally…(yep, a
drummer, so I have a wide and varied background…what can I tell
you…got me through college). The purloined auto being a beautiful
brand new 1966 two-door beige, fully loaded, Pontiac Lemans.
Upon
arriving for work on that particular night, I and my wife (who was
the pianist in the group), having gotten a late start from home,
grabbed the first available parking space in the lot which was some
distance from the club. As we walked into the nightclub and began
setting up for the evening, I commented that I hoped we had enough
fuel to make it to a service station after the final set that night.
Fearing being late for work, I had decided not to stop for gas on the
way, even though the gauge was nearly on ‘empty.’ I had reasoned
that we had enough fuel to get there and that we could stop at a
station on the way home... “ought’a have at least 10-15 miles
left in the tank,” I though to myself.
After
the four-hour stint on stage, I was shocked to find that at quitting
time that my car was not where I had parked it, and that it had,
in-fact, been MY new beige Pontiac that I’d observed driving out of
the parking lot during one of our breaks. Upon finally coming to
grips with what I had so nonchalantly watched happen, I called the
police to make the stolen vehicle report. By the time the officer
arrived and finished the report it was considerably past closing
time, and the club owner, who lived on the premises but had no car of
her own, had locked up for the night leaving us stranded and without
transportation (we lived 8-10 miles away).
However,
just as I was counting my change to see if I could afford a cab
(‘real broke in those days), we discovered that our next door
neighbors (George and Eve English) just happened to still be sitting
at the piano bar in the darkened lounge (they’d somehow been
over-looked and not tossed out after the last-call and George had
insisted on hiding out until he finished his drink…the last of
quite a few, as a matter-of-fact). Learning of our plight, they were
happy to give us our ride home (…directly to our front door).
During
the drive home, Eve asked if my wife and I would accompany her and
George to Atascadero, Ca. the following morning to look at a house
they were thinking of buying. We agreed and, once home went directly
to bed with a promise to meet them at 10:00 AM the next morning.
Now
understand Atascadero, California is a obscure little town about 20
miles North of San Luis Obispo, where we lived at the time, and is
known primarily for the state mental hospital there (Atascadero State
Hospital for the Criminally Insane). Definitely off the ‘beaten
path’…for most of us anyway.
The
next morning at the appointed time, we met for breakfast and headed
to Atascadero to see the new house. Upon turning onto the street
where George thought the house was located (and after having been
lost and driving in circles for an hour), we found our selves on the
wrong street…however, what we saw was truly unbelievable. Directly
in front of us, a half-block away, on a street where we shouldn’t
have been in the first place, was our car! Without a single scratch
on it.
My
wife and I exited from George and Eve’s car, got into ours, and
shoved the ignition switch back in the hole from which it had been
yanked the night before. As I tried the ignition I realized the gas
tank had been emptied (obviously, had I filled up as I intended to
the day before, the car would have been 500 miles away by this time).
Next, I asked George if he’d drive us to a gas station. Before I
could ask the favor, George opened his trunk and withdrew a full
five-gallon can of gasoline, which he had intended for his lawnmower
the day before, but which he had forgotten to remove from his trunk
Then,
after all that, upon arriving home we discovered that while we were
out, instead of sleeping-in like we normally would, our water heater
had exploded and blown our house to smithereens. Well…OK…actually
that part is not true. But, wouldn’t that have been a real doozy
of a synchronicity story? The fact is that our house was just fine,
our car was just fine and we lived happily ever after (until she
realized she hated me and filed for divorce).
Here’s
another one:
Not
too long after the above incident I had received a promotion with the
company I worked for (my day job was selling pharmaceuticals for
Organon Pharmaceuticals headquartered in West Orange New
Jersey) and was transferred from Ventura, California to the little
town of Landing, New Jersey (near Succasunna, Muscanetcong, Whippany
and Parsippany…should those names be more familiar).
As
we were preparing to start our trip eastward, we were sadly informed
that a dear friend of ours had been killed in a motorcycle accident.
Terribly saddened by the loss, but unable to make other arrangements
or afford a trip back for the funeral, we headed for New Jersey.
Upon
arriving at our new home, some 3,000 miles away, I realized I needed
some tools to do some work on the house before moving in, and learned
that Landing had no hardware store. Deciding I’d find one in
another city on another day, I walked across the street to a
neighborhood grocery store, introduced myself to the owner and asked
where I could find a hardware store. The owner announced that in
addition to his grocery store, he also moonlighted in a hardware
store in Succasunna, just 3-4 miles away, and that he would be happy
to take my order and deliver everything to me personally in the next
day or so. That sounded great to me and I gave him a blank check and
list of what I needed (I never said I was smart, OK? Moreover, that
was a loooong time ago…during my naïve and inexperienced years).
At about 6:00 PM that same evening the man walked over to the house
and told me he wouldn’t be able to fill the order himself after all
(and he did give my check back). He said that he and his wife would
be flying to California the next morning to attend a funeral for a
dear friend of theirs who had recently been killed in a motor cycle
mishap…if only he could find out their address. He thought the
city was Victorville or Visalia, but he didn’t know for sure and
didn’t have a phone number.
Yep.
Same guy. Johnny Allen. I gave him the phone number, the
address and the time and date of the funeral on the spot. In
addition, we learned from the storeowner that his wife and our mutual
friend’s wife Janet were related, but had been estranged for years
over an old argument about something silly (like one of them having
crushed the other’s skull with a brick, or something. No! Another
fib for humor’s sake…no brick…'don’t know what their problem
had been).
After my talking so
much about the coincidence over the next year or so, the two ladies
reconciled and Janet moved back to her home town of Whippany N.J.
(about 20 minutes or so way from we lived). As Janet was moving
east, we were headed back to California with another promotion,
following which a long chain of equally strange coincidences led me
to my current business and my very fulfilling life.
So?
Why do these things happen? Moreover, how can knowing about them
help us?
There
is much about our Universe, its ‘Law’ and our Earthly existence
(the ‘Word’) that we just don’t understand, and which remains
mysterious and invisible and beyond our realm, but persists
none-the-less. It is entirely possible, and in my own opinion,
“probable,” that these forces work surround us and in, quite
predictable ways, affect and control every aspect of our lives and
destinies on a second-by-second basis.
After
all, it wasn’t many years ago that we denied (because we couldn’t
see, feel, smell, taste or hear them) the existence microbes,
bacteria, molecules, atoms, radio waves, X-rays and dust mites. We
‘still’ can’t see ultra violet or infrared or hear a dog
whistle (actually most dogs don’t whistle, but I’m sure couldn’t
hear them if they did); but we no longer doubt their presence in, and
affect upon, our existence, validity, function and benefit.
Nowadays
we don’t worry at all that these things are invisible…we merely
invent machines to see, experience and use them for our benefit. We
freely acknowledge now that our existence or demise is controlled by,
or dependent upon, these heretofore unseen and undetectable
“otherworldly” forces. Still we hesitate to acknowledge the
possibility that those other aspects of yet to be discovered, equally
solid science, may be controlling, directing, or at least modifying
our every moment.
My
sincere belief is that we mortals live upon, or within, a very real
but unseen multi-dimensional grid, which if understood can and will
provide all of our turning points and opportunities. I feel that we
take this aspect of our being and its function far too much for
granted, overlooking it for the most part due to a lack of being able
to see and have faith in it.
I
am convinced that this “grid” or “matrix” is in-fact the
invisible wiring for the intelligence that is the purpose and plan of
the Universe itself. We are the end-result and probably the very
purpose of this universal intelligence…we are in a very real sense
the Universe’s sensory mechanism: a life form in its infant stage,
created (perhaps throughout the cosmos) to allow the Universe, the
ultimate “creator,” to see and experience itself.
At
this point in our evolution, we obviously cannot command or direct
nature to any meaningful degree; but we most certainly can “work
with” it to our advantage. The examples given above for the
experience of “synchronicity” are obviously not just series’ of
coincidences. They are, in my mind at least, evidence of an
extremely well designed schematic that shapes our individual purpose.
Some of us reach the synaptic intersections or “points of
crossing” of these unseen lines of “flux,” and somehow know to
relax for a while and let the world “happen,” versus constantly
trying to control it. Others of us are so afraid and concerned about
failure and loss of control (both of which represent our fear of
dying), that we faithlessly and regularly detour around these
juxtapositions, never realizing that we have just short-circuited our
own destinies and torpedoed the very goals that “The Plan” is
trying to provide fir us.
I
don’t profess to know much about the backgrounds of the likes of
Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Aristotle Onassis, J. Paul Getty, Ross
Perot or Oprah Winfrey. I do know, however, that all of their wealth
and/or financial success is a direct result of their intimate oneness
with the synchronous process by which their lives are lived and
directed. I know that not every bucket of gold handed to them was a
random action, but instead a specific result of specific choices made
at the intersections of these “flux lines,” which led to the
opportunities and choices that made them who they are. The
confidence these folks have in their right to the abundance they’ve
attained for the asking, is what has enable their enormous successes:
not cheating, conniving, huckstering or avoiding risk…and certainly
not gambling (“accepting risk” and “gambling” are as
unrelated to each other as “betting” and “investing” are).
Speaking
of “gambling”: if what you’re saying is true, then why couldn’t
I use my knowledge of these flux lines to, let’s say, always win in
Las Vegas?
You
can! Without a doubt…if you have as much excess money as you do
time. All you have to do is keep doubling your bet every time you
lose, until you win. You’ll then be right back where you started.
However, if that’s your plan, you have to stick with it, no matter
what, until “luck” changes and returns all of your losses to you.
At that point, you can merely keep on doing what you’re doing
repeatedly until you realize that merely replacing your losses is not
“winning. Or…you get into another line where you can control the
odds yourself.
Think
about it. How many Las Vegas casinos have gone bankrupt in the last
twenty years? Aren’t they gambling with the same money that their
clients are? Yes, of course they are! In fact, that’s where all
their money comes from. They are playing the same games with the
same cards and the same money on the same tables and taking the same
risks at the same time as the players; but they’re not gambling.
They’re “doing business.” And therein lies the big difference.
Gamblers hope, dream and wish (and pray) without a plan. Business
people Need, Plan and Obtain, regardless of the game at hand, and a
businessperson would never knowingly accept the same odds that
gamblers do.
Casino
operators are well aware that with a thorough knowledge of
Mathematics the odds can always be adjusted in their favor. In
addition, they know for sure that even with a nearly imperceptible
shift to a 51:49 ratio in their favor they will ALWAYS win in the
end. More importantly, however, they know that gamblers make
mistakes and give up to soon when they lose…which pushes the odds
significantly further in their favor. They also know that most
gamblers who win will immediately reinvest all of their winnings in
the next game, and pay it all back to the house the second time
around. In high-stakes card games (touted as having the fairest odds
of any game), where the players are pros and make few mistakes, and
the odds can’t be adjusted, the casino simply charges the players a
percentage of all of their winnings…again they can not lose, and
they are always playing with “Other Peoples Money.” THAT is the
lesson to be learned.
So
how do I work with this information and within the “synchronicity
grid” and assure myself of always winning at everything I try?
Let me give you ten rules that will keep you on the grid and assure
your absolute success in everything you do:
Develop a
steadfast faith in the unerring intelligence of the Universe (call
it the Supreme Power, the Force, or “God”), understanding
without reservation that all mistakes serve a teleological purpose
and lead ultimately to perfection and permanence. When your
mistakes are recognized and dealt with as experiences to be
re-analyzed, amended, altered and never to be repeated, they are as
valuable as are your successes.
Know that
Failure is a necessary part of winning…without it you will always
end up right back where you started. Mistakes are what all Success
is based upon. Make sure that your faith is permanent and steadfast
in this “unseen circuitry” that is the “matrix,” enabling or
denying our every success, via synchronous events. And assure
yourself that your faith will hold up in the face of any evidence
that might seem contrary to it.
Gamble only
with the “house’s money.” Do ‘BUSINESS’ with your money.
Let someone with more excess of it than you, who wants to gamble,
take the open risks. Their repayment will be the reward of the
opportunities you can provide. That is…find reasonably safe ways
to give others opportunities to benefit and flourish, even beyond
your own gains, by means of your efforts and your knowledge and
expertise. Help them in areas they have no access to, or desire to
study, but in areas in which they are willing to take their own
chances and reap their own benefits, while paying you for the
opportunity of doing so.
Do any
“gambling,” if you must, with something worth more than money,
but which you consider to be wholly expendable and which you have
more than enough of. That is…excess time. Time itself is one of
the (if not the primary) components of this thing that we call the
“matrix.” We all have more time than we use or spend, and
nothing coverts to cash flow and real wealth more quickly and
reliably than time.
If
you do have “expendable money,” then use that…but excess time
is still more abundant, more valuable and way under-utilized. And
it’s all going to waste anyway if unused.
When
you have nothing else to do, it costs nothing to stand in one spot
and point at the sky…and if you do that long enough you can’t
help but be eventually pointing to a star. If you continue using
your time in this manner, you will have pointed to millions of them.
You don’t see any value in stars, you say? Well, then point to
something else…like Real Estate. The same concept holds true with,
for example, our brand of cold-calling (calling when no one’s home
or having a machine do it for you). If you do it repeatedly, no
matter how many setbacks you experience, you will eventually find
yourself talking to someone who has exactly what you’re looking
for, and who needs exactly what you have to offer. Then if you
continue doing it over and over again and refuse to quit, there is no
limit to the number of properties you can control.
In
fact, when cold calling with our script, we find the actual odds to
be an average of one or two acquisition opportunities in 20 calls for
the average beginner who makes at least 50 calls. Although, the
longer you continue to call and the longer you continue making your
mistakes--and learning from them--the greater those odds become.
With your
destination (your goal) firmly in mind, concentrate on where you’re
going to be when you get there, and when you plan to arrive, rather
than trying to outline the easiest pathway. Plan your trip, of
course, but leave room for the odd change of heading and frequent
stops along the way.
Allowing
for diversions (or being forced into them) is what enables the matrix
to serve you and what places the most successful of us in front of
those experiences and synchronized coincidences that culminate in
Wealth and Success.
Never
compromise your Word: but never either be a slave to a pledge based
upon an outcome that differs from the one anticipated. If it’s a
bad idea and there is no hope for its success, and your involvement
can be done without, face the ridicule, chastisement or the
potential personal loss and get out from under it. “The only
thing more important than ‘you’ is ‘who you are,” and that
can’t be, and must never be, comprised because of your, or someone
else’s, defective plan or bad idea. Whipping a dead horse is
contrary to the rewards that the Matrix can provide for you and for
those you may have to abandon for your own good.
Live for Today,
but never stop thinking about Tomorrow, and never (ever) enter into
any place or thing without a thorough knowledge of how you will be
able to get out when and/or if you need to. A solid exit strategy
gives you peace of mind in knowing that you can relax in your
decision to have proceeded, and that your mistakes can’t destroy
you. This caution avoids any conflict with the synchronous outcomes
of the choices you will encounter along the path.
Turn the
everyday management of your Life and your Needs over to your mental
“director (e.g., your subconscious; God; the intelligence of the
Universe, etc.).” Give that entity a name and write to it
regularly (with pen and paper) telling it exactly what you lack and
what you need. In the process, suggest how those needs can, or
might come about. For example: Outline your possible
synchronicities: i.e., “If X does Y, and then XX could interact
with Z and cause YY to produce A, resulting in AA which is the
fulfillment of my Need.” Be prepared for none of it happening the
way you plan it, but the planning if not set in concrete will give
your director something to edit, versus starting from scratch.
After
composing your letter, place it in a private place and relax. Forget
about it. You’re finished. Your director will align your
coincidences and handle the rest for you (usually sooner and in
greater proportion than you might ever have hoped…so be careful
what you think you need, or ask for).
Determine that
no matter what…you will always: 1. be where you are expected to
be (i.e., show up), 2. listen more than talk (pay attention), 3. be
absolutely honest; and 3. remain unattached to the outcome (turning
that part over to your director), remaining confident in knowing
that what may seem like a setback or letdown on one level, is on
another level an enabled coincidence leading you away from failure
and toward the synapse of your fulfilled Need..
Remember always
that tricking people, forcing them or cajoling them into doing your
bidding by means manipulation may be a talent revered by many
corporate executives and sales mangers; but doing it, completely
by-passes the matrix upon which your life is built. These actions
pretty much neutralize any success attained, and once again, you're
right back to Square One. That’s the law.
Now let’s all relax and go get some of those waiting free houses!
Bill Gatten
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